From Oct 6

Written 10/6

It’s early Monday morning and I’m nearly ready for work. Jesse is sleeping on the floor in the living room. I hope I haven’t woken him to the point that he can’t fall back to sleep. Today will be interesting. I wasn’t in my classrooms on Friday because of a visit to another school to look at CTT models. Collaborative Teaching. I understand that my students were NOT on their best behavior with a substitute. I felt that I had done everything I could by providing a seating chart, clear instructions, plenty of work, and had spoken to my class about their behavior.

Needless to say, I am disappointed in them right now. So, we’ll see how today goes. I have the week planned out already, and I’ve made the exam for the 7th grade class for Friday already. It’s so much easier to teach when the exam is written. 7th grade is reviewing Order of Operations. It’s a difficult concept, and we work on it all year long. Then they will be working on positive and negative numbers and their operations.

My 6th grade classes are working on solving single step equations with one unknown. We have evaluated expressions to the point that over 80% of my students are completely bored with it. Now to challenge them and to maybe bring along some of the others that are lost.

I researched a lot of things over the weekend to help me teach these topics. Hopefully, my research pays off and I’m more prepared for their insecurities and questions.